"Your all dismissed!"

"That was Sword Qi that he just used!"

Both Elders heard what Elder Jing just said, and frowns were quickly revealed on their faces.

At this point Hou Li had made it back on his own two feet and was entering the ring again, his face was showing a bright red hue, as he was holding a real sword now and not his wooden sword.

"Elder Duan, how dare you throw me out of the fighting ring, we were having a sparring match, this voids out the results of the fight, we should start over!"

"Shut up Hou Li, if you don't I'll fight you here and now!" - as Wang Wei pointed to the ground

Hmm...

( Hou Li showed a face, that looked like he was scared of Wang Wei, Young Master? )

( Yeah I saw that,

At this point, Qing Long flipped and juggled his Short sword and then slid it back into its scabbard, and was now standing in the center of the ring looking at Hou Li, going on another trade, but he tried to get a quick look at Elder Jing.

He thought he wouldn't be seen looking, but ever since they clashed swords against each other, Elder Jing hasn't taken his eyes off Qing Long yet.

"Elder Duan, do you not hear me!"

Elder Duan, Elder Chun, and Elder Xue, eyes were glued to Qing Long, it was like he was a spirit mountain of gold and that they wouldn't let it out of their sight.

"Hey, I'm talking to you. do you not !!!"

Elder Hou had come from behind Hou Li and covered his mouth, then hit an acupoint on his through so he couldn't talk, Hou Li's face was even redder now from humiliation and becoming even angrier.

"I'm Sorry Elder Jing, for my clan's young one, I promise no disrespect."

Without even looking at Elder Hou and Hou Li, Elder Jing accepted his apology and dismisses them both in one second.

"Your all dismissed!"

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- Elder Hou's Courtyard

Elder Hou arrived in his courtyard, with Hou Li in his arms.

When they entered, the maids and gentlemen working in the large courtyard bowed and welcomed him home, but when they lifted their heads to look up. All they could see was that Elder Hou had quite a visible and horrible frown on his face covered in disgust and anger.

"Elder Hou, do you want some tea?"

When Hou Li finally found his footing after arriving, he started to adjust his clothes and then proceed to look at Elder Hou with anger.

Elder Hou then dismissed everyone in the courtyard.

"Why did you stop me from fighting again? Said Hou Li calmly

"You think I didn't want you to fight again, but from what happened and the body langue that was given off from Elder Jing."

"If you need me to remind you, I will, I'm the master here not you or should I remind you, who you are!"

"Don't you talk back to me boy?" Elder Hou said quietly

"Your just a Deacon in the Hou family, you might be an Elder here within these walls of this school, but to me, you'll always be the old man who failed to get the Family leader position when I was little, you lost to your uncle and don't forget your uncle is my Great-Grandfather Elder Hou!

"Don't you dare try to talk down to me Boy, I'm still your Elder!!"

Smack!!

"If Elder Duan didn't push you out of the ring in time and Elder Jing was a little slower, you be frozen in Ice right now!"

"Huh!"

"Yeah, did that catch you off guard, you arrogant little shit!"

"You might be able to catch up to your older brothers and maybe even the heir, but if don't stop looking down at everyone and underestimating all of your opponents, you wont even make it to your next birthday kid, and maybe you might make some real progress towards your goal of actually beating all of your siblings, and getting the Family Head position, but that will only happen if you keep your head down, and stay quiet, for you so obviously desire in about 10 years."

At this point, there was a lot of tension between the two in the main hall of Elder Hou's Siheyuan-style residence.

"What does any of this have to do with me asking for a rematch."

"While you were flipping and tossing around in the air before you landed in the crowd, Qing Long released Sword Qi, becoming a 4th Ranked swordsman, the news is already spreading and you want to face him with your newly acquired Sword Seed power you acquired today, and don't think I don't know what you did!"

"Yeah so, if I didn't, that fight was going to drag on forever, it is an embarrassment if I lose to that low-born, piece of shit, peasant Qing Long!"

"Because you lost your focus and acted out rashly, you forced your way into the next cultivation realm, and it's going to be twice as hard to unlock more meridians within your body, and well now that's going to limit the speed of your cultivation and your future potential!" - Elder Hou Yelled

"Elder Hou eye's light up a bright pale yellow as he released his Aura in full force, as quick as the wind. A strong and wild force rose from Elder Hou's body.

It came out of his body like a dancing flame, it had a pale yellow color and was moving around Elder Hou as if it was alive, the temperature of the main hall heated up and the shutters on the windows blasted open from his display of power.

It almost looked as if the spiritual flames were revealing themselves to Hou Li, for Elder Hou to show off and put pressure down on Hou Li, causing him some trouble breathing properly and as Elder Hou pushed his strength higher and higher, Elder Hou could be seen grinding his teeth in a blazing fury while looking at Hou Li.

"Leave me be, now!"

In his whole life, Hou Li had never been disciplined before or punished for what he wanted to do or had ever done before.

After today he would either grow as a person or fall into a path of debauchery and rashness, causing him and his Hou family trouble.

( I'll make you all pay for looking down on me, mark my words! )

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- With the Council Hall

It was quiet and silence was the only thing going on in the late hall.

"I know it was approved on the spot so none of you are in trouble, but going forth I believe we can only hold sparring matches between students in an adequate setting or on one of the better Training fields so this doesn't happen ever again."

"Sir we didn't know that this was going to happen, if we knew we would have never let it unfold as it did." - Elder Duan

"This has never happened before, at least I've never heard of it! An 8-year-old that has gotten control over Sword Qi before reaching the Qi Condensation or Foundation Realm."

"Elder Dong Yang, I feel so too, but that is not the problem here!"

"What's the problem here, Elder Jia Yu?"

"How do we proceed from this? Not everyone here is a part of the same faction or comes from the same origins and some of us even come from different powers, before we settled down here to teach students and maybe pass on our techniques and abilities to a future disciple!"

"Elder Wu your right, but you are also miss informed!

"Oh yeah, well since you have all the information, why don't you tell us. Because if you don't remember this boy is an extremely talented sword cultivator and if we make the wrong choice or make a bad decision, not just us but all of our former places of origins and the powers we all came from will be fighting each other, for this boy!"

While all of these men were sitting at a long table discussing the future that was about to take place.

There were two men in all-white Robes with clouds on the sleeves, standing off to the side at the back of the hall standing next to each other, discussing their very own ideas for the boy's future.

( Junior brother thank you for making it here quickly. )

( I came as fast as I could, as soon as I received your message through the jade cloud token. I rode my Thunder Sky Hawk here. )

( Should we concern ourselves with these bickering men? )

( They're just trying to rep the benefits that come with discovering a talented person, that's why all of them settled here in the first place, other than the School head and 4 of the top 7 Elders our on our side and had future knowledge of the boy's talent, that's why master sent me here 2 years ago to keep an eye on the boy before anyone took notice of his talents, we have been protecting the boy, not just watching over him. )

( Send word back to Master, and if you can convince him to summon the council and get here as soon as possible, the news won't be stopped from being hidden for more than 3 days and what I saw I won't let anyone else take him from us, we discovered him first it's only right he joins our Sect. )

( But won't this cause tension between the local powers and the other academies, and the General Assembly Test and Graduation tournament is coming up, so if we do something, it could affect us taking in more talents making us lose out on new blood for our sect. )

( When we took in Duan Ling Tian and Qi Shui, we pissed off the other local sects and the major powers on Guang Continent but it was for our Sect's future and it's not up to us if the higher-ups accept them into the fold. )

( Our job is to protect Qing Long and nothing else, and if anyone gets in the way of that, it is our job to destroy them no if's, an's or but's come between us or our objective set by our Master! )

( Now instead of trying to talk about morals or what is right and wrong, contact master and get him to send a Great Elder or maybe GrandMaster will have to come out so we don't fail Masters order, remember everything I do is for our Sect no matter if it seems evil, wrong or touching on a morally gray compass, everything I say, do, or plan to do is so our Sect can survive anything and everything Junior brother! )

Swoosh!

The departure of the younger of the two men, caused some of the more quick-witted ones to notice that the young man was leaving quickly, without any care in the world.

( They must be alerting Master already, they can't wait anymore, some of these men are vultures and even if they didn't see the fight at the Red Dirt Field, I can already see the greed in their eyes, they're like a pack of hungry jackals! )

( Don't worry Head Master, our Junior brother is taking care of the problem for us, we just need to sit back and wait for them to show up, we just have to watch and protect Qing Long from the shadows Elder Brother Tian Jiang! )

"Sir where is that young man going?!?"

"Why should it matter to you Elder Yu, or are you having some devious thoughts about right now?"

The man froze for a second, he felt an invisible pressure from the man in whites, an Icey stare, the young man's Icy blue eyes were piercing right through him as if all of his secrets were being revealed!

"Head Master Tian, don't worry I've solved the problem, you can tell the School Head not to worry, everything is being settled so not to worry himself with these things, oh! Elder Dong Yang I forgot to tell you, you were wrong about what you said."

With how he said and did everything, it was like this young man Elder Jing was a devious 1000-year-old Spirit Snake Demon, calculating and planning everything out before the enemy has a chance to react.

The Hall started to drop a little in temperature, and Headmaster Tian and Elder Xue, and Elder Chun were all on this young Elders side.

"That was a funny joke you told sir." Elder Xue

"I have to agree Junior, I have to agree that was a great joke, don't you think Elder Yu?" - Headmaster Tian

Elder Jing played along and started to make his way out of the hall, Elder Duan, ElderChun, and Elder Xue dismissed themselves and followed him out of the hall.

"Well, gentlemen, I think there's nothing else to discuss, I'm going to go have lunch, this Elder meeting is finished!" - Head master Tian started laughing historically as he walked out of the hall